Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Where Can I Find App-V Training?

Introduction

App-V training takes many forms
and I recommend you take a look at the various offerings available to determine
what best suits your needs from both a delivery and content perspective.
Training for App-V is offered by Microsoft and a number of customized options
also exist outside of that offering but I will first start with what Microsoft
offers and go from there.

Microsoft Training

Microsoft offers a five day
course for App-V 5 that is not lumped in with the rest of the MDOP suite as
App-V 4 was. This exam also covers virtual desktops so it is not 100% App-V but
I do believe the additional content in the exam will be relevant to many users
of App-V. This exam is 70-694 and can be found on the Microsoft
Learning Website.

In addition to the traditional
learning track at Microsoft there are a couple courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy
that I have personally took that offering and has quite a bit of useful
knowledge for free. The first course is done by Aaron Ruckman the senior
product manager for MDOP at Microsoft where he delivers a session titled MDOP
Application Virtualization Deep Dive. The second course is hosted by Steve
Thomas aka the Gladiator who is a senior consultant for Microsoft that often is
engaged with very large accounts using App-V. His course is titled Deploying
Office 2013 with App-V and again I highly recommend it.

Training by Industry
Professionals

Next I will put in a shameless
plug for training that both Tim Mangan and myself maintain for App-V since
2007. Tim Mangan worked at Softricity before the Microsoft acquisition and
managed the product development at that time. He has since become a
semi-retired geek writing tools, teaching, some consulting and presenting at
conferences around the world. My role has been more firmly placed in the
consulting world as I was an early adopter of the technology as I went to get
trained on SoftGrid 3.1 before I had my first SoftGrid project. I teach but my
focus is consulting and trying to find time to blog with my schedule. Our
course is five days of pure App-V focusing on infrastructure but more so on
various advanced App-V sequencing scenarios as that tends to be the most
challenging part of using App-V for most of our customers. We are both long
time MVPs for App-V which has now transitioned to being a Windows IT Pro MVP
and Tim also enjoys being a Citrix CTP. Our joint website is www.gridmastertraining.com but we
offer our courses independently at www.tmurgent.com
and www.bighatgroup.com. Do note that
at Big Hat Group we have performed online training in real time to some North
American customers.

Hopefully I can do the others
justice as there are some newer options that are worth considering. Another new
MVP Thamim Karim formally a Microsoft employee offers training in London UK and
this might be of interest to European customers. He is a super bright guy and I
have faith that he is delivering a solid course. His course can be found here and he also has a blog on the same side worth checking out.
Kalle Saunamäki is a long time App-V MVP and that also maintains what I think is one of the best third party App-V tools for sequencing called Application Virtualization Explorer. He unofficially offers sequencing workshops at www.gridmetric.com.

I personally don't know much
about Erik Havarstien (sorry Eric!) but he is currently a Citrix CTP offing
both XenApp training and App-V training programs. His course seems to be more
slanted toward XenApp users and it is an online subscription offering from what
I can tell. You can find out more about his course by visiting his website for App-V training.

For App-V training in the Netherlands and Belgium as well, you can take a look at AIMED Solutions. They are a leading consulting & training company in the application packaging area. Thier training center, the AIMED Academy is based in the Netherlands, they are offering several courses all related to application packaging / virtualization and desktop management solutions. These courses can be held on-site/in-company/abroad as well. These highly valued App-V courses (also available in English) run on a monthly schedule so if you're looking for their training schedules visit www.aimedacademy.nl.
QA which looks to be a training provider based in the UK offers a three day App-V training program that can be taken online. This course looks to be a mix of infrastructure and sequencing for App-V 5. More information can be found on the QA.com website.
Also in Finland is another company that offers App-V training on top of professional services. This company is offering courses for traditional packaging along with App-V. Visit Centero.fi for more information.
If you happen to be an
AdminStudio user Flexera has a course available to better understand how to use
the application virtualization features in their product to make App-V
packages. This course is specifically intended for packagers using their
AdminStudio packaging tool and can be found here.

Finally I did find some training
for a group called Avance in the Netherlands. I am assuming the training is in
Dutch and can be found here.

If you feel that I have missed
something then please feel free to email me at kevin.kaminski@bighatgroup.com
to refine this article further and good luck with your training effort!

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Kevin Kaminski is a seasoned consultant with over 19 years’ experience focusing mainly on Microsoft technologies that range from device management to the data center. Using his experiences from different organizations large and small, he can draw upon practical knowledge that he incorporates into his speaking engagements, training materials, articles and consulting engagements. He currently is a Microsoft MVP for Windows and Devices for IT and has been a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) over the past six years.

Some of Kevin's current consulting engagements include the following roles: Windows 10 consultant with a local property development firm and Configuration Manager consultant with a local consulting company. In addition to his consulting engagements, Kevin spends time blogging and speaking at various technical conferences such as Briforum. Kevin is a past Director of the Calgary IT Pro Community Association and heads up the Calgary Systems Management User Group (a CIC special interest group).